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Is Free Will an Illusion? A Response to Sam Harris
In a recent comment, a reader named K asked me to respond to this article: “Why You Probably Don’t Have Free Will,” by Jack Maden. Here is the article’s opening synopsis: “Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris argues that free will…
Tagged with: God, freedom, atheism, materialism, science and religion, free will, atheists, determinism, Calvinism, human brain, Sam Harris
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Do God and Spirits Influence People and Things in the Physical Universe?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named AJ739: Dear Lee, Your website has massively helped me overcome my anxiety that was brought on by the New Age Movement and their beliefs,…
Tagged with: angels, evil spirits, freedom, fundamentalism, Gibeon, God, miracles, science, spirits, the Bible, the Exodus
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
If God Already Knows What We’re Going to Do, How Can We Have Free Will?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Josh: It says in the Bible that God knows our every word before it even leaves our tongue. If God already knows what we’re…
Tagged with: causation, determinism, foreknowledge, free will, freedom, God, omniscience, the Bible, the future, time, time and space
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 3
(Note: This article is the third of a four-part series. The first three parts are edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers. The original versions appear in the comments section of the…
Tagged with: forgiveness, freedom, God, heaven, hell, human soul, love, religion, soul, spirituality
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 2
(Note: This article is the second of a four-part series. The first three parts are edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers. The original versions appear in the comments section of the…
Tagged with: evil, forgiveness, freedom, God, hell, love, personal transformation, repentance, salvation, spirituality, Swedenborg
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 1
(Note: This article is the first of a four-part series. The first three parts are edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers. The original versions appear in the comments section of the…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, forgiveness, freedom, God, hell, salvation, spirituality, Swedenborg
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook, by Emanuel Swedenborg
The Heavenly City is Swedenborg’s own brief introduction to his religious ideas, translated into readable modern English. If you want to get the basics on Swedenborg in his own words, without having to struggle through old-fashioned translations, this is the…
How does God Govern Humankind? Is God Actively Involved in our Lives?
Why does God let us experience pain and suffering? Clearly all is not right in our world. The daily news brings us more death and disaster, pain and suffering than we would ever desire. How could a loving God allow…
Tagged with: angels, Divine Providence, Emanuel Swedenborg, eternity, evil, freedom, heaven, joy, pain, rationality, reason, salvation, suffering
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Don’t Look Back! Press Onwards and Upwards!
Nostalgia never seems to go out of style. Twenty- and thirty-somethings relive their carefree days of high school and college. Forty- and fifty-somethings yearn for their years of young adulthood, before their shoulders were weighed down with heavy burdens of…
Tagged with: Abraham, Dead Sea, don't look back, Exodus, freedom, Lot, Lot's wife, onwards and upwards, pillar of salt, seven spirits, slavery, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
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